[Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?
Kevin A. McGrail
kmcgrail at pccc.com
Wed Apr 27 15:55:30 EDT 2005
Preface: My mimedefang runs as user defang gid 107 and uid 107. Hence the
info below.
#8 -- Using a temporary filesystem to speed up mail processing and lower
disk I/O
- If you have tmpfs in your kernel and you have enough RAM, then processing
the emails on a ramdisk
is the only way to go. Here's a simple way to achieve that thanks to
Alan Premselaar & Steffen Kaiser
for the mount hint:
#Stop sendmail & mimedefang
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang stop
mv /var/spool/MIMEDefang /var/spool/MIMEDefang.old
mkdir /var/spool/MIMEDefang
#add this line to /etc/fstab
none /var/spool/MIMEDefang tmpfs
uid=107,gid=107,mode=700,size=384M 0 0
mount /var/spool/MIMEDefang
NOTE: You'll want to place your bayesian database and auto-whitelist
somewhere else as noted by Bill Curtis!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Ward" <mwardg at gmail.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?
> we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some
> time now, very successfully.
>
> looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more
> efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk
> (tmpfs as opposed to an expen$ive solid state disk) for mimedefang's
> temporary directory?
>
> am i right in assuming that the "temporary directory" is what
> configure calls "spooldir" and not the "quarantinedir"? or is there a
> separate "temp dir"?
>
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